What My Project Does:

Ereddicator is a Python script that allows you to selectively delete or edit your Reddit content. Key features include:

• Simple GUI
• Selective Content Removal: Choose which types of content to delete, including:
• Comments
• Posts
• Saved items
• Upvoted content
• Downvoted content
• Hidden posts
• Edit-Only Mode: For comments and posts, you can choose to only edit the content without deleting it. This may be desirable as Reddit is capable of restoring deleted comments.
• Karma Threshold: You can set karma thresholds for comments and posts. Content with karma above or equal to the threshold will be preserved.
• Subreddit Filtering:
• Whitelist: Specify subreddits to exclude from processing.
• Blacklist: Specify subreddits to exclusively process, ignoring all others.
• Date Range Filtering: Set a specific date range to process content from, allowing you to target content from a particular time period.
• Dry Run Mode: Simulate the removal process without actually making any changes. In this mode, Ereddicator will print out what actions would be taken (e.g. what comments and posts will be deleted) without modifying any of your Reddit content.
• Advertise Option: When enabled, there's a 50% chance for each comment or post to be replaced with an advertisement for Ereddicator instead of random text before deletion.

Ereddicator also has an added measure against the original content being read. The content replacement process (with either random text or an advertisement) occurs three times immediately before the final edit or deletion.

Comparison:

Shreddit is the main alternative and it has various forms:

1. https://shreddit.com/ - a website that requires payment.
2. https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit - An open-source Rust implementation.
3. The original Shreddit - A Python project that was abandoned in 2017: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

When it came to deleting my own Reddit history, I was not particularly taken with any of the above options. I definitely did not want to pay, nor did I really want to use something quite outdated (2017 is somehow seven years ago). The rust solution is definitely good and updated and feature-rich, but it is a... Rust solution. And I'm more familiar with Python. Nothing against Rust I just don't know it well at all.

In my opinion, I think one of the advantages of Ereddicator is that while it may not have as many features, it is more user-friendly. There is even an option for Windows users who do not have Python installed to just run an EXE and follow a few instructions.

Target Audience:

Ereddicator is just designed for Reddit users who want to clean up their post history in a hopefully simple and straightforward manner.

Please feel free to give this a try and give recommendations for improvement / features to add :)

https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator/